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Perl 6 Deep Dive

By : Andrew Shitov
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Perl 6 Deep Dive

By: Andrew Shitov

Overview of this book

Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages consisting of Perl 5 and Perl 6. Perl 6 helps developers write concise and declarative code that is easy to maintain. This book is an end-to-end guide that will help non-Perl developers get to grips with the language and use it to solve real-world problems. Beginning with a brief introduction to Perl 6, the first module in the book will teach you how to write and execute basic programs. The second module delves into language constructs, where you will learn about the built-in data types, variables, operators, modules, subroutines, and so on available in Perl 6. Here the book also delves deeply into data manipulation (for example, strings and text files) and you will learn how to create safe and correct Perl 6 modules. You will learn to create software in Perl by following the Object Oriented Paradigm. The final module explains in detail the incredible concurrency support provided by Perl 6. Here you will also learn about regexes, functional programming, and reactive programming in Perl 6. By the end of the book, with the help of a number of examples that you can follow and immediately run, modify, and use in practice, you will be fully conversant with the benefits of Perl 6.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we were talking about reactive programming in Perl 6. This paradigm has support in the language core, so no external modules are needed to start programming. The supply is the main character in this chapter—we covered two different types of them, on demand and live supplies. We had many examples of attaching taps to supplies and saw how the data flow is organized and how it can be filtered.

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This was the last chapter of the book. In 15 chapters, we went from the very basics of Perl 6 through an object-oriented approach and concurrent programming to higher order features such as functional and reactive programming. Perl 6 naturally embeds all of that. There is no doubt that more than 15 years of development added value to the quality and maturity of the language in general.

During the process of writing this book, which took about half a year...